>Hal was still in control but he was being manipulated into doing it
It's exactly what I said.
That means Hal needed something that pushed him to do that, that he was never able to came up with something by himself.
That's bad, he should have just flaws
Was it a good redemption arc?
Daniel Davis
Bentley Moore
What is was:
>Hal became an ends justifies the means type after losing his city (which in itself was a bit hamfisted)
>Through his battles with Kyle, realizes he fucked up pretty badly
>Sees re-igniting the sun as a chance to redeem himself
>Stuck in purgatory and decides to become the Spectre to atone for what he's done since Corrigan won't take over again
>Manages to turn the Spectre into a Spirit of Redemption rather than just blindly judging everything because he felt so guilty
What it is now:
>Sinestro infected Hal with Parallax somehow after being executed
>Influences him to kill the Guardians and his fellow lanterns
>Wrests control enough to re-ignite the sun?
>Goes to purgatory despite not being in control of himself when these things happened
>Spectre judges him despite not being in control of himself when these things happened
>Comes back to life and the people who had forgiven him have gone back to square one with distrusting him
Rebirth did a lot of good for the GL line, but Johns could've done something a little less hamfisted to bring Hal back.
Aaron Bennett
>Rebirth did a lot of good for the GL line, but Johns could've done something a little less hamfisted to bring Hal back.
That really sums it up. I’d say Rebirth may even be the weakest part of his run. I understand not wanting a character to be at fault for their actions, I really do, but doing it like that isn’t the way. Hal didn’t need to be mind controlled. He was redeemed before he even came back from the dead. If Hal hadn’t already had a redemption arc, I’d probably be a lot more partial to it.
Benjamin Anderson
Bentley Howard
Why’d you post this? I appreciate it. Ross is an amazing artist, but it’s not relevant.
Liam Ward
Turning Sinestro into an Anti-Hero also rubbed me the wrong way. Not to mention the complete disregard for Black Hand. Should've just made a new character if he was going to change him that much.
Ayden Jackson
yes it is
Ktar, the very first Hawkman who serves as a general for the Deathbringers, a race of titanic gods that require mass sacrifices in their names. Ktar and his his ally, Idamm, are charged with collecting the individuals to be sacrificed -- when we first meet Ktar, he has just finished a campaign on Thanagar, which led to 12,000 prisoners being rounded up. The sacrifices are then taken to the temple world of Qgga, where they are thrown to the deaths in service to “The Lord Beyond The Void” so that he may one day escape into our universe and lead his Deathbringers on a path of devastation, but Ktar has been having second thoughts.
During his time on Thanagar, Ktar saw a woman among the dead who approached him and uttered the words, “You are in pain, warrior,” to which Ktar told her to hide before Idamm found her and added her to the field of dead. The woman appeared again on Qgga, lurking in the shadows, just out of the corner of Ktar’s eye. From then on, every world Ktar traveled to, the woman would be there watching him. The weight of his actions weighed heavy on his conscience until the time came for the final sacrifice, the one which would bring The Lord Beyond The Void into the universe. Again under the judgemental eye of the woman who watches, Ktar refused to commit this last act and instead set about freeing the enslaved to help him bring down the temple and stop the ascension.
Levi Evans
I never saw Sinestro as an anti-hero. Whenever he and Hal teamed up it was in Sinestro’s best interests to do so.
I never knew anything about Black Hand before*hand* so I don’t mind it much, but it’s certainly a fair criticism.
Aaron Collins
Ktar was able to keep Idamm busy while the chained Thanagarians dragged the sacred pillar into the void to stop the dead god’s return. In doing so, they brought down the entire planet of Qgga around them. Idamm was able to pin Ktar to a wall with his spear, but was crushed shortly thereafter by falling debris. In his dying moments, the woman approached Ktar and offered him her hand, saying that no one deserves to die alone. As the gateway closes, The Lord Beyond The Void swears to his former general that he will not only get his revenge, but that one day Ktar will serve as the weapon he was always intended to be. Then, the portal seals shut and Ktar dies staring at the stars without the answer to his final question… what was the woman’s name?
Ktar awakens in a field of skulls with a mysterious, omnipresent voice as his only company. He is told that he has a choice between life and death. He can accept death and whatever judgement may come with it, or he can live again in a cycle of reincarnation to make amends for the lives he slaughtered. If he chooses to live again, he will be trapped in a cycle of reincarnation across space and time until he has saved as many lives as he was responsible for ending, and considering the Deathbringers slaughtered civilizations and offered up sacrifices in the five-figure range, that’s going to be quite a lot of lives that need saving before Ktar can know peace. Still, the Deathbringer chooses to live again and the voice gives him a final word of warning: The Deathbringers will return, and when they do, each life they take will once again be added to Ktar’s tally until he stops them once and for all.
Brandon Cooper
It was an attempt to legitimize sinestrostro